House of Cards - Season 6 (2018)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2018
	Creator: Beau Willimon
	Actors: Robin Wright (The Congress), Michael Kelly, Diane Lane
	Country: USA
	Genre: Thriller, Drama
	Conditions of visioning: February 2019, VOD, 10" tablet screen
Synopsis: The start of this new presidency is not easy, and it is ever so difficult to know the motivations behind the country's first woman.
Review: I concluded my review of the season 5 with the sentence "I fear the series will have to find a totally new angle to keep being attractive in the future". It turned out that events forced the series to an angle. Indeed the multiple scandals around Kevin Spacey's sexual harassments ejected him from the cast while he was obviously the central member of it together with Robin Wright. We may be thankful that a last (short) season was nonetheless produced, in order to try and bring the series to some sort of closure, this is appreciable. But given the conditions in which it was done, major rewriting in a short amount of time, one can wonder whether it has any interest at all. It IS nice to see a story come to an end, but that end is bittersweet. Maybe something like that was intended all along. I would love to know what were the original plans for concluding the series. You can notice the will to make several storylines converge (the reporters, the president, her entourage, Doug) but it feels a bit rushed (it probably was), short on ideas and cast (the sets do feel empty). The President's motives are often fuzzy, even when you see the ending. Oh Robin Wright still depicts very well the cold Claire, but she does seem lost without her husband to rely on or fight against. The magic of the show really was in this pair. An nice original addition to the season, which we haven't seen in the previous ones, is the influence of rich powerful families on politics. I guess that was a plan all along for that season. Really too bad this successful show had to end that way.
Rating: 3 /10